Starting anew…
Well, it has been some time since I have made any blog posts. In fact the last ones were back in May. Back in May I ran into some issues with several things. After fighting with then for a couple weeks, I simply decided to abandon that implementation. one of those wind out of sails kind of thing. Soo, after missing blogging for a couple of months, I started to think just how to start again. My last blog was hosted on an ISP and I maintained the WordPress installation. This was very cool from a geek perspective, and allowed for a lot of freedom and experimentation. I however, found myself more consumed with this flexibility that actually using the blog itself. I am one of the types that, if in the right mood of geekdom, can spend hours and possibly days experimenting with plugins, themes, and new cool features. That being said, i started to look around at what other blogging mechanisms were available. Some of the ones that are familiar to most, Blogger, Livejournal, Typepad, Xanga, etc. Even discovered a new one by the folks that do Typepad and Livejournal (well, the people that bought Livejournal, and have not messed it up yet.), called Vox. I can hear the thoughts in your head right now – why not just use the hosted server space you have on Site5 to host it and be done with it? The short answer – convenience. I want a place that I am not tempted to geek out with. One that simply provides the tool to create and develop my blog. Since i am a huge fan of WordPress (used for all previous blogs), wordpress.com seemed like a natural solution. 
The lack of complete control over the site was a bit challenging at first, but that squelched the tendency to geek out rather that blog. It was wordpress, which I was already familiar with, and after reviewing some of the features, https was standard. Soo, here we are. I am not saying that at sometime in the future I will not deem it necessary to move this blog to a wordpress installation completed maintained and developed by myself, or to another blog site for that matter – what I am saying is this was the right decision for the moment. 
